scrap

scrap

a. waste material or used articles, esp metal, often collected and reprocessed

b. (as modifier): scrap iron

Scrap

metallic raw material in the form of industrial waste and rejects, intended for remelting into usable metal.

scrap

[skrap]

(engineering)

Any solid material cutting or reject of a manufacturing operation, which may be suitable for recycling as feedstock to the primary operation; for example, scrap from plastic or glass molding or metalworking.

SCRAP

Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the
late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer
computers and was in use until the late 1980s.

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